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Originally Posted by EricH
...In soccer, there is a rule. The rule is, "If the ref didn't see it, it didn't happen." ...
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Wow! That's a curious rule. If you were on a bus and sombody in the back opened a can of sardines, would you not know it because you didn't see it? Or what if someone fired a gun on the other side of the ridge, would you say it didn't happen?
A major league umpire calls over 200 pitches per game and well over 100 games per year. He knows when a pitch scrapes the ground before hitting the mitt, or is trapped instead of caught clean. With hundres of thousands of pitches worth of experience, he's seen, heard, and felt it all.
There's no doubt in my mind that Eddings knows he got it right. It turned out bad for the Angles, but it was their bad, not his.